Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More important, the duumvirate fired Khrushchev's hated chief ideologue Leonid Ilyichev, replaced him with Party Secretary Petr Demichev. Demichev has informed Soviet artists and writers that the party will no longer interfere in matters of style, though it still retains the threat to clamp down on "nonSocialist content." Today a Socialist abstract painting is not a target of automatic denunciation. Such Western authors as F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Updike are now being published in Russian...
...began coming unstuck, Comic Buddy Hackett simply stuffed the play in his hip pocket and forgot about it. He now scatters nightclub-style monologues throughout the show, and after the final curtain, in between ad libs, puts on his fellow actors and clowns away to his heart's content. Everyone has such a good time that in its 20th week the third-rate show took in a respectable $50,000-plus...
...layman to switch allegiances as painlessly as he changes homes or jobs. As a result, church "conversions" in fast-growing areas often amount to nothing more than "ecclesiastical cannibalism" of the already committed. Many churches in today's mobile America are so busy absorbing transfers that they are content to limit their outreach to people with a high motivation for joining-their own Sunday-school graduates, or suburban couples with children. Of suburban Washington families whose houses cost $22,000 or more, at least 65% belong to a church, compared with 3% of those who live immured in apartments...
...very fact that it is popular marks a tremendous change. North Carolina's former Governor Terry Sanford speaks for many Southerners when he says: "We had lived with our myths for so long that we actually believed the vast majority of Negroes were content, happy, carefree, lacking in ambition and singing...
...intellectual and analytical. "Our function," says Dean Bernard F. Landuyt of Detroit University's college of commerce, "is to train business leaders, not clerks." When Robert R. Dockson became dean of the University of Southern California's school of business administration five years ago, he revamped its content from top to bottom, adding to the faculty experts in sociology, philosophy, political science and physics. Says he: "I cut out all the Mickey Mouse courses that were purely descriptive...